{"id":17243,"date":"2022-01-21T16:45:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T11:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=184055"},"modified":"2022-01-21T16:56:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T11:26:33","slug":"australian-open-defending-champion-naomi-osakas-journey-ends-at-the-first-grand-slam-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/australian-open-defending-champion-naomi-osakas-journey-ends-at-the-first-grand-slam-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open: Defending champion Naomi Osaka\u2019s journey ends at the first Grand Slam of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third round at the Day 5 of the Australian Open resulted in unfortunate for the reigning champion Naomi Osaka as she got knocked out by 20-year-old Amanda Anisimova 4-6 6-3 7-6[5] to book her spot at the fourth round of the women\u2019s singles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Giant slayer \u2694\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnisimovaAmanda?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AnisimovaAmanda<\/a> knocks out defending champion Naomi Osaka 4-6 6-3 7-6[5] to advance to the fourth round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AO2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AO2022<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AusOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4FkZhER6hy\">pic.twitter.com\/4FkZhER6hy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1484475196828536839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>2019 French Open semifinalist advances at the next round in style as she couldn\u2019t believe if it was real. \u201cI can\u2019t stop smiling even when I\u2019m playing,\u201d said Anisimova at the Australian Open interview after she eliminated Osaka from the tournament at the Margaret Court Arena on Friday. \u201cNaomi is an absolute champion, so I had to be more aggressive,\u201d she further added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No, this is not a dream \ud83d\udc4a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnisimovaAmanda?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AnisimovaAmanda<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AusOpen<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AO2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AO2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x4vxkPIvmm\">pic.twitter.com\/x4vxkPIvmm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1484478596798418945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>From being 4-5 down in the third set, Amanda managed to force a decider where she went 8-4 against Osaka which was too much for the Japanese to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>According to tennis journalist Jose Morgado, after this loss against America\u2019s Anisimova, Osaka is out of the top 80 WTA Ranking and is currently on 84th. The Japanese was sidelined following mental health concerns and didn\u2019t appear in much of the events.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WTA Ranking after the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AusOpen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>39. Andreescu<br \/>84. Osaka<br \/>94. Kenin<br \/>244. S. Williams<br \/>461. V. Williams<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jos\u00e9 Morgado (@josemorgado) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josemorgado\/status\/1484476707138674690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Amanda had outlasted 22nd seed Belinda Bencic in the second round before facing Osaka and she will next clash against World No. One Ash Barty who previously defeated Camila Giorgi at the Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The American is looking forward to being playing the next round as she faces Barty next, who won\u2019t easily let the title slip away from her hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Anisimova defeated Noami Osaka and will clash against World No. One Ash Barty in the next round of the Grand Slam. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":37989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2023,1448,1460,689,615],"class_list":["post-17243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-amanda-anisimova","tag-ash-barty","tag-ashleigh-barty","tag-australian-open","tag-naomi-osaka"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}